science and technology

Tech giant Google fired an employee who staged a protest against the chief of Google Israel during a company-sponsored Israeli tech event, accusing the company of being complicit in Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza, which Palestinian Americans, legal experts and several countries say is genocide.

Uber Eats Japan Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will launch a new food delivery service from Wednesday in central Tokyo using self-driving robots, with plans to roll out the service more widely in the future.

The primary objectives of the Pars 1 satellite encompass the creation of a detailed map of the water sphere at a scale of 1:200,000, as well as mapping the biosphere and human sphere at a scale of 1:100,000.

Hydropower has a reputation for being climate-friendly. Yet building dams disrupts environments and taxes already scarce water resources. Dams even trap rotting vegetation and thus, ironically, emit greenhouse gases. Yet with superpower competition ramping up, and China building dams across the world — including Ethiopia — the environment may just get caught in the middle.

Iranian Vice-President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi said that the number of knowledge-based firms in Iran has increased by 200 times.

Twenty-five years is a narrative arc. A hero’s journey echoing with personal growth and transformation. It is the story of a young man transitioning from a young adult into a seasoned professional. Perhaps in a similar vein, it is also the story of Aurora embarking on a relatively parallel journey from obscurity to becoming the thought leader of the industry.

In the Joint European Torus (JET)'s final deuterium-tritium experiments (DTE3), high fusion power was consistently produced for five seconds, resulting in a record of 69MJ using 0.2mg of fuel.

The age of the electric vehicle seems to be upon us—though it would be more correct to say that the government is hastily ushering it in. In 2023, electric vehicles made up 7.6% of all new light duty vehicles sold in the U.S., but the federal government is clearly setting its sights much higher—and on a fast timetable. Several states, including California, New Jersey and Virginia, have issued mandates that all new vehicles sold beginning in 2035 are to be electric vehicles. The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed vehicle emissions standards, set to be officially confirmed in March 2024, target a 60% market share for new battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) by the 2030 model year.

Two months after its release in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT had 100 million active users, and suddenly tech corporations were racing to offer the public more “generative A.I.” Pundits compared the new technology’s impact to the Internet, or electrification, or the Industrial Revolution — or the discovery of fire.

Twenty-two percent of workers say they’re worried their job will become obsolete because of technology, up from 15% in 2021. And these fears aren’t unfounded: 72% of Fortune 500 CHROs foresee AI replacing jobs in their organization in the next three years.